| Outside appointments confer prestige and status, as well as financial rewards and perquisites. |
| Bloodlines, most often male, confer honor and power as well as heirdom and charisma. |
| The effect was to confer a quite new level of political legitimation on Berlusconi. |
| In alchemy, the production of the Philosopher's Stone that could transmute lead to gold, and confer immortality. |
| The chancellor's official duty is to confer degrees upon graduands at convocation. |
| Even better, its employees and freelancers confer more often, allowing them to work faster and more efficiently. |
